G'day,
Try ReadList or use options with Import, for example, Import["file",
{"Text", "Words"}]
Assuming you are using V7 you will find more information on he
following page from the Help- -> Docmentation Center.
tutorial/ImportingAndExportingFiles
Cheers
Yas
On Mar 14, 2009, at 5:42 AM, swiftset wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to import data from a file where the fields are stored
> in a fixed width format. The Import["file", "Table"] command is the
> closest I can get to what I'd like, but then the data is divided using
> whitespace, so I get a lot of extraneous fields, and no way to tell
> whether what Mathematica imported as two fields is actually just one
> that contained a whitespace.
>
> Any ideas on how to proceed?
>